Pregnancy and Postnatal Pilates

Prenatal pilates

Prenatal Pilates provides a safe way of exercising throughout your pregnancy, giving you tools for deep support and mental strength. The class helps you create strength in preparation for labour and helps you avoid common problems that occur in pregnancy such as – backache, postural imbalances, low-energy levels and poor circulation. We recommend that you wait for 12 weeks into your pregnancy before beginning a course.

All classes are 55 minutes in length. You can book your own classes online. Please arrive in advance to check in.

Postnatal Pilates

Postnatal Pilates is designed to help you re-connect with your body and recover from giving birth. You will be guided to rediscover the deep abdominal and pelvic floor muscles as well as learn relaxation techniques. Your baby is welcome in this class. If you have never done pilates before, we recommend that you wait 8 weeks after birth. Doctor’s clearance may also be required.

All classes are 55 minutes in length. You can book your own classes online. Please arrive in advance to check in.

Private sessions

A custom tailored movement program supports mothers before, during and after birth. To begin in an equipment program, you can enroll in the 3 introductory private class special. During your first lesson a file is created detailing your exercise program and any health issues. This file is updated at each session so that all teachers can be kept abreast of your progress and other relevant changes from week to week.

Elisa Fu

Senior teacher
Massage Therapist
Elisa moved from Hong Kong to Amsterdam in 2020. She has been a certified BASI mat teacher since 2014, and comprehensive global teacher since 2022, with multiple years of teaching experience. Elisa brings a special eye for the human body as a whole to her sessions with an education in muscle release technique and aromatherapy.

You can join her group classes, book a private Pilates session with her or book one of the following massage sessions with her; Vacuum Therapy (cupping), Myofascial Release, Deep Tissue Massage or Lymphatic Drainage Massage.

Noha Ramadan

Senior teacher

Noha Ramadan is a choreographer, dance educator and pilates instructor. She has been training at TMP since 2015, and holds a certification in mat and comprehensive global Pilates from BASI.

Her dedication to pilates began after an injury, and led her to find a new relationship to many techniques she experienced as a professional dancer over the last 20 years including release technique, ideokinesis, and body-mind centering. Pilates helps her to feel grounded and connected in all areas of life, and to keep moving with a deeper sense of intention.

Her goal as a pilates instructor is to support access for all bodies, and especially those often marginalised. She encourages BIPOC, queer/non-binary and transgender people to her classes. All are welcome.